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Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the images of essential America that we have long since accepted as fact, and his work has influenced not only modern photography but also literature, film and visual arts in other mediums. The original edition of «American Photographs» was a carefully prepared letterpress production, published by The Museum of Modern Art in 1938 to accompany an…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: In 1900, Swedish design reformer and social theorist Ellen Key published The Century of the Child, presaging the coming century as a period of intensified focus and progressive thinking around the rights, development and well-being of children. Taking inspiration from Key-and looking back through the twentieth century-this volume, published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde explores the extraordinary convergence of artists, intellectuals, and creators in Japans capital city during the radically transformative postwar period. Examining works from a range of media paintings, sculpture, photographs, drawings, prints, videos and films, as well as graphics, architecture, musical compositions and dance this is the first publication in…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: American Modern presents a fresh look at The Museum of Modern Arts holdings of American art made between 1915 and 1950, and considers the cultural preoccupations of a rapidly changing American society in the first half of the 20th century. Organized thematically and featuring paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and film, the publication brings together some of the Museums most…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: John Singer Sargent's approach to watercolor was unconventional. His confidently bold, dense strokes and loosely defined forms startled critics and fellow practitioners alike. Enhanced by biographical and technical essays, and lavishly illustrated with 175 color reproductions, this publication introduces readers to the full sweep of Sargent's accomplishments in this medium.

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: William Eggleston's Guide was the first one-man show of colour photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum's first publication of colour photography. The reception was divided and passionate. The book and show unabashedly forced the art world to deal with colour photography, a medium scarcely taken seriously at the time, and with the vernacular content of a…

Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: Into the Sunset examines how photography has pictured, established and transformed the idea of the American West, from 1850 to the present. The development of photography coincided with the exploration and settlement of the West, and this simultaneous growth resulted in a complex relationship that has shaped the perception of that region's physical and social landscape to this day. Published to…

Скачать книгу (размер 228 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 46) Аннотация: A facsimile edition of Friedlander`s exploration of the photographic self-portrait, first published in 1970.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: The execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, in 1867, was the subject of a quartet of paintings by the French Impressionist and early Modernist Edouard Manet. These works are rarely shown together, and in fact cannot be seen in their entirety, since one of them exists only in fragments, but the three intact paintings and the surviving elements of the fourth are reproduced in this publication,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: Published to accompany the first major survey of Cindy Shermans work in the United States in nearly 15 years, this publication presents a stunning range of work from the groundbreaking artists 35-year career. Showcasing approximately 180 photographs from the mid-1970s to the present, including new works made for the exhibition and never before published, the volume is a vivid exploration of…

Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: A lady checks her luggage for a train ride: a couch, a suitcase, a traveling bag, a picture, a basket, a hat-box, and a little dog. Will they all make it to her destination? During the 1920s in Russia, many authors, poets, and talented visual artists worked with fervent dedication and the support of the government to create a new type of childrens literature, one that drew on both the aesthetic…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Dutch artist Aernout Mik's moving-image installations meld filmmaking, sculpture and architecture into experiences that are at once compelling and unsettling, irrational yet plausible. The artist designs and constructs architectural spaces that hold his moving images, making the viewer's physical relationship to the piece a critical component of the overall experience. By interrogating the most…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 232 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 439) Аннотация: This book contains all of the diaries, programs, essays, and major articles written by Alexander Rodchenko between 1911 and 1956. The word experiment was a keyword for the artist, who conceived of his multimedia oeuvre as one huge experiment. Referred to by his friends and contemporaries as a scout of the future. Rodchenko sought new paths in graphic design and painting, sculpture and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Lee Friedlander is one of the most important of the 1960s generation of photographers for whom the posture of disinterested objectivity served as a vehicle for passionate personal inquiries. His large body of work he most often produces extended series of pictures on a chosen theme, then publishes them in book form is broad in subject matter and supple and complex in style, and focuses on what he…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Throughout his career, Douglas Gordon has engaged in an ongoing reflection on the motion picture, examining the relationship between cinema and our common knowledge and perception of it. In altering, monumentalizing and alienating our collective understandings of film, he has visualized, pictured and 'sculpted' time. Motion/Pictures, the book accompanying an exhibition that focuses on Gordon's…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Roy Lichtenstein made a tremendous impact on Modern art in the twentieth century. As a pioneer of Pop art, he was a key figure in the postwar tradition that brought American art to the forefront of the international scene. This new volume in the MoMA Artist Series, which explores important artists and favorite works in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, guides readers through a dozen of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 228 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 242) Аннотация: Since its birth in the first half of the 19th century, photography has offered extraordinary possibilities of isolating works of art for study and pleasure. Through cropping, focus, angle of view, distance and lighting as well as the ex post facto techniques of dark room manipulation, collage, montage and assemblage, photographers not only interpret the artworks they record but create stunning…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Hailed as the most successful and inspiring exhibition of photography ever assembled The Family of Man opened at The Museum of Modern Art in January 1955. This book, the permanent embodiment of Steichens monumental exhibition, reproduces all of the 503 images that Steichen described as a mirror of the essential oneness of mankind throughout the world... Photographs, made in all parts of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: Originally published in 1973, this marvelous collection of photographs with accompanying texts by the revered late Museum of Modern Art photography curator John Szarkowski has long been recognized as a classic. Reissued in 1999-with new digital duotones-this volume is now available to a new generation of readers. This is a picture book, and its first purpose is to provide the material for simple…

Скачать книгу (размер 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 156) Аннотация: The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski is a twentieth-century classic--an indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography. Based on a landmark exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 1964, and originally published in 1966, the book has long been out of print. It is now available again to a new generation of photographers and lovers of photography in this duotone printing…